Tell Us: Are You OK With Guns on the Rail Trail? (PA)

patch.com ^ | 26 June, 2012 | Josh Popichak

[stuartcr]

OC has restrictions. It is illegal for a felon to posses a weapon unless they’ve had their rights re-enacted, even then, they must have special permits.

[Lurker]

Can you elaborate on that a little bit? I haven’t heard the story on this one.

Thank you.

[Georgia Girl 2]

You are not supposed to take weapons up on the AT either but nobody around here that I know of goes up there without one. I wouldn’t.

[Paladin2]

""George, please come out to talk with me," Henninger recalled Lasso asking Hitcho before he was shot. "Control your dogs," Lasso also told Hitcho, according to Todd Schaedel, a friend of the defendant who was charged with lying to police after the shooting, but took the stand Monday for authorities. Bruneio, the Freemansburg chief, said Lasso was trying to fend off the two snarling dogs, kicking at them while holding a Taser straight in the air in his left hand.

"Shoot 'em," Bruneio yelled before a shot rang out and Lasso fell to the ground.

Hitcho came out holding a shotgun, one hand on its pump, the other on its trigger, Bruneio said. Three times, Bruneio said, he told Hitcho to drop the weapon before he did so.

"He tried to break into my house," Hitcho told Bruneio."

The cop entered Hitcho's back yard w/o a warrant and w/o exigent circumstances. The dogs approached, while the Chief of popos arrived in the front/side of the house and told the cop to shoot the dogs. Hitcho beat him on the draw.

[Lurker]

Score one for the dog owner.